Language proficiency modulates the recruitment of non-classical language areas in bilinguals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Leonard, Matthew K ^a,b   Torres, Christina ^b   Travis, Katherine E ^b,c   Brown, Timothy T ^b,c   Hagler Jr , Donald J ^b   Dale, Anders M ^b,c   Elman, Jeffrey L ^a,d   Halgren, Eric ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPAIN; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WRITTEN LANGUAGE; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953037843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018240     Document Type: Article

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